New York Women’s Foundation Announces Additional $4 Million in Grants for 2017

Good news for progressive women's organizations in and around New York City, as the New York Women's Foundation today announced that they made an additional $4.21 million in grants in 2017, bringing the total for their grantmaking in 2017 to $8 million, the largest amount ever given out by the foundation in a single year. Recipients of the grants span a wide range of issue areas related to women's health and well-being. Grants are provided through a model of grantmaking that is achieves added impact by using community engagement, advocacy, and networking to produce significant social change. The Foundation also provided an additional $2,525,000 from The NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color to 41 "emerging groups" -- groups that are working to build the leadership and influence of young women, transgender people, and gender non-confor